Bug#950904: RFP: mod-tile -- Renders and serves map tiles using apache

[Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : mod-tile
  Version         : 0.4
  Upstream Author : 
* URL             : https://github.com/openstreetmap/mod_tile
* License         : GPL-2.0
  Programming Lang: C, C++
  Description     : Renders and serves map tiles using apache

mod_tile is a system to serve raster tiles for example to use within a slippy map. It provides a dynamic combination of efficient caching and on the fly rendering. Due to its dynamic rendering, only a small fraction of overall tiles need to be kept on disk, reducing the resources required. At the same time, its caching strategy allows for a high performance serving and can support several thousand requests per second.

Mod_tile was originally written for serving the tiles of the main OSM map (Mapnik layer), but since is being used on a variety of different servers providing maps ontop of OpenStreetMap data.